St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3 families!

Here are our learning highlights for this week according to the ‘Broxburn’ group:

Daniel enjoyed examining the famous painting by Claude Monet called ‘Spring Flowers’.  We discussed how many different flowers we could spot, their position and shape within the painting and then we attempted to draw them.  Next week we will add colour.  Some children volunteered to research the painting and we found out that there were 13 different types of flowers painted (including peonies, hydrangeas, lilacs and geraniums), it was painted in Paris and is currently in a museum in Cleveland Museum of Art.

Amelia loved our outdoor learning lesson.  We were learning about alliteration during Literacy and thought we would find some in nature.  We found some interesting ones such as ‘amazing ants,  crawling creatures, small sticks, risky roots and long leaves’!  We almost found one for each letter of the alphabet!

Tyler liked PE were the children continued to develop their run/jump/throwing skills.

Dawid enjoyed listening to a play called ‘Blueberry Muffins’ about a little boy called Toby who made muffins for his granny’s birthday.  We read through it twice, with Daniel and Umeaz playing the role of Toby and Gabby and Laaibah playing the role of Mum.

Izhaan and Umaez then enjoyed when we followed up this lesson with making our own giant blueberry muffin!  It was great to see some of the children try new tastes and hear how they then made it at home that evening! The recipe consists of mashing one banana, adding a whisked egg, 2 teaspoons of flour and a handful of blueberries and chocolate chips.  You then mix it all together and bake in a microwave for 2mins either in a large mug or bowl.

Vihaan reported that going to the library was something he really enjoyed.  The children enjoyed a lovely story (chosen by our birthday girl, Navami) and had time to browse.  I have sent home a copy of an application form to those children who were interested in becoming members.

Danvith liked it when we tried ginger bear!  The wolf drank it in our Word Boost story ‘Little Red’.

Maja said the best part of her week was when we went to Mass to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension.  The children were very respectful.

My highlight was when the children drew the Claude Monet ‘Spring Flowers’.  They will be beautiful recreations when they are finished!

Congratulations to our Reading Champion, Gabriella!

I hope you all have a lovely long weekend and I will see you all on Tuesday.

It has been another full filled week of learning in P1A.  A large beanstalk appeared in our classroom made by the Friendly Dragon.  We were very excited and imagined ourselves climbing up the beanstalk.  We acted this out and imagined what we could see, hear, touch, taste and smell when climbing the beanstalk up to the Giant’s castle.  We drew our own beanstalks, some of us added a castle at the top.  We also added a photograph of ourselves climbing up and cotton wool for the clouds.

On Wednesday we received a ginormous letter and some footprints from the Giant.  He wanted us to use the footprints to measure with.  The Giant made an awful mess and knocked things over so we had to tidy it up.  We were a bit annoyed with him.  On Friday we received a ‘sorry’  letter from the Giant to say the bell ringing scared him and he didn’t get time to tidy up.  We completed maths and literacy activities related to Jack and the Beanstalk.

On Tuesday we had a session in the Woodlands with Kids Gone Wild.  We had great fun walking across the slack line and using our imagination playing with all the loose parts in the woods.  We have another session next Tuesday.

On Thursday we learned about Ascension Day and some of us went to Church .

Have a lovely long weekend everyone and see you on Tuesday.

This week has been very exciting! The Friendly Dragon made us our own beanstalk in the classroom and it even had a castle at the top. We have been reading Jack and the Beanstalk and we are sure we could hear the giant stomping and stamping. So we used our imaginations to climb the beanstalk and visit the castle. We then used our senses to explore and wrote some fantastic sentences on special castle paper.  We also drew our own beanstalks and put a photograph of ourselves climbing up to the castle.

On Wednesday, when we got back from lunch the classroom was a mess! The Giant had been in the classroom and had left us a giant letter and some footprints to measure with. We were very angry with the Giant as he did not tidy up his mess so we made Wanted Posters and put them all around the school. On Friday, we received another giant letter. The Giant said he was very sorry he had made a mess but he had been looking at all the things in our classroom and got a fright when the bell rang.

We can’t wait to see what exciting things the Friendly Dragon has planned for us next week!

On Tuesday, we were out in the Woodland with Kids Gone Wild. We enjoyed being on the slack line and making a bug hotel.

Oh what an exciting week we have had in P1A.  It all started on Monday when we received a letter from a Friendly Dragon asking us to help rebuild Fairyland. It has started to disappear because people are not reading enough fairy tales. We all agreed instantly to help and wrote letters to the dragon to tell him. We received another letter on Wednesday asking us to learn about castles and to make flags. The dragon had lost it’s castle home and wanted our help to rebuild it. We created some beautiful flags.  We think the Dragon will be impressed.  We also learned about the parts of a castle. We then drew a picture and labelled it correctly.  We received castle books from the Dragon to put all our Fairyland work in to keep it safe.

In Literacy we wrote descriptive sentences about a dragon.  We continue to practise our common words and sounds.

In Maths we looked at sharing zoo animals into enclosures.  We used concrete materials to share out between different numbers of people and we learned what the term division means.

We worked in the playground looking at numbers up to 30 and practising forming letters with chalk and sounding out and writing cvc words.  We have enjoyed playing outside in the lovely weather.

On Friday we went into the woodlands and completed a match the animal game.  We then went on a minibeast hunt and ticked off the different ones we could find.  We were very excited to see up close lots of minibeasts.

We all agreed the highlight of our week was getting the letter from the dragon.

Congratulations to Zaraan our Hot Chocolate winner.

Have a great Bank Holiday weekend everyone and we will see you all again on Tuesday.

This has been a very exciting week in P1!

On Monday, we received a letter from a Friendly Dragon asking us to help rebuild Fairyland. It has started to disappear because people are not reading enough fairy tales. We all agreed to help and wrote letters to the dragon to say we would help. We received another letter on Wednesday asking us to learn about castles and to make flags. The dragon had lost it’s castle home and wanted our help to rebuild it. We created some beautiful flags and put them up on our classroom wall. We also learned about the parts of a castle. We then drew a picture and labelled it correctly. Miss Stebbing was very impressed with our work. In Literacy, we learned about adjectives and made a word bank to describe different dragons. We then wrote a sentence about the dragon for writing. We are looking forward to reading lots of Fairy Tales and helping rebuild Fairyland.

On Friday, we had a fire in our Woodland Fire Pit. We toasted marshmallows and made s’mores. They were delicious. We sang some songs around the campfire and all agreed that this was our highlight of the week.

Congratulations to Amelia who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She is always a kind friend to others and showed confidence in reading during group time.

Pupil Highlights –

Bodhini : I liked going outdoors for Kids Gone Wild with Lee.

Tiwa: I liked learning how to multiply a 3 digit number by 1 using the short written method.

Aadya: I liked doing 2 by 2 digit multiplication sums.

Chahiti: I like creating my own multiplication word problems for my peers.

Abeeha: I liked going to Dechmont with Lee.

Deveena: I liked doing the 2 by 2 digit multiplication sums.

Alicja : I liked going with Kids Gone Wild with Lee, especially the zip line.

Congratulations to Vivien for winning hot chocolate this week. You have challenged yourself in your maths and you have worked hard at understanding arguments for and against in a discussion text.

Hello P3 families!

I hope you received your personal invitation to our assembly on Friday 1^st May.  If you are unable to come, then a P6 pupil will be paired up with your child to complete the activities.  I will take lots of photos to share on the Blog too for you to enjoy.

Here are our learning highlights for this week according to the ‘Livingston’ group:

Oscar loved our learning about the importance of not wasting food.  The children poured out how much of a given food (for example, pasta) they think they eat and then compared that weight to the correct advised portion.  We discovered that we are putting too much food on to our plate and therefore create food waste which in turn damages our ozone layer as it releases methane.  We also discussed the importance of not using single use plastics in our lunch box.

Navami and Gabriella both liked it when they had a run around outside after assembly practise and an opportunity to play with the hola hoops and skipping ropes.

Leighton has continued to enjoy our class novel, White Fang.  We hope to finish it this coming week.

Eiza and Jospeh both reported that learning the 4 Times Tables has been the best part of their week.  Eliza enjoyed writing a 4 Times Table on the table and then pressing a lego piece into playdoh that many times to show what it looks like (an array).  Jospeh liked the warm-up Beanbag game and managed to be one of the last ones standing!

Ollie loved Building Thinking Classrooms this week.  The children were tasked with having to place different children in different bedrooms as they began to annoy one another from their usual 1-10 sequence layout in their house.  The parents bought a new house with a different layout.  The children worked well together to find a solution.

Izhaan and Alex both said they enjoyed practising for the assembly.  Both Miss Stonehouse and I have been so impressed with how the rehearsals are going.  The children have come up with the choreography themselves for both songs.  You will be in for a treat!

My highlight was the zero waste lesson.  The children got very passionate about not using single use plastics in their lunchbox in the future and from now on are going to take any waste home so they can put their waste in the correct bins that West Lothian Council provide.  Two members of West Lothian Council came to visit P3 and P3/2 and set up some fabulous learning experiences for the children, all about their waste.  They have kindly agreed to let us use some of these activities for our assembly so that you too can take part with your child!

Congratulations to Vikashini our Reading Champion and to Izhaan, our Hot Chocolate winner this week!

I hope you enjoy the sun this weekend!

Mrs Brown